For both Bruce Wayne and Batman, it is a rough time. Dick, his longtime partner in crime-fighting, has left him to spread his own wings in Bludhaven. District Attorney and Bruce's friend Harvey Dent is in hospital following a violent accident which may have permanently disfigured him. Along the same time, the citizens of Gotham are being terrorized by what many call a giant bat monster, and naturally everyone in the GCPD suspects Batman to be the culprit, except for Commissioner Gordon.